Maintaince :/

negbert · October 2016

Wow. How do you people cope living in the real world? Is this why you freak out when you can't log into a fantasy world?

xarguideb17_ESO · October 2016

Are we getting one Tamriel today?

The Uninvited · October 2016

gard · October 2016

So we're having maintenance today, and the servers are being taken down again on Wednesday?
I doubt it.
If today is really server maintenance, then either something is seriously wrong, or ZOS are the worst planners in the history of man.

CapnPhoton · October 2016

SanSan wrote: »

Can't please everyone.

It doesn't matter what time the maintenance happens, there will be complaint threads.

Surely people have other things to do...

treytrey12 · October 2016

If you're complaining about maintenance you either don't have a job, or if you do you're not working hard enough..

Minno · October 2016

Elong wrote: »

BFT88 wrote: »

Why should an employees real life suffer for your wanton need to play a video game? Grow up, it's your problem little man.

Sorry BFT, I start work at 5am, why can't they start work at 5am and start the downtime then? It's not suffering, it's called a job.

Except their job hours are different. You going to pay for their overtime to compensate?

Regardless, you can't make someone work if their time outside of work is spent being in it. Once you liquidate that line between private/work life, you increase employee burnout.

It's easier to play outside during maintenance than to make ZoS put strain on their workers for no reason.

Elong · October 2016

Minno wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

BFT88 wrote: »

Why should an employees real life suffer for your wanton need to play a video game? Grow up, it's your problem little man.

Sorry BFT, I start work at 5am, why can't they start work at 5am and start the downtime then? It's not suffering, it's called a job.

Except their job hours are different. You going to pay for their overtime to compensate?

Regardless, you can't make someone work if their time outside of work is spent being in it. Once you liquidate that line between private/work life, you increase employee burnout.

It's easier to play outside during maintenance than to make ZoS put strain on their workers for no reason.

Not at all. Simply change hours. As someone else stated earlier, if it were me I'd rather start at 5am than be up till 2am to start a server reboot!

anitajoneb17_ESO · October 2016

Elong wrote: »

Not at all. Simply change hours. As someone else stated earlier, if it were me I'd rather start at 5am than be up till 2am to start a server reboot!

It's not you, though.

Bandit1215 · October 2016

Ihatenightblades wrote: »

Im kinda getting sick of seing theres a maintaince happening the night i really looked forward to playing.

What happened with the 5am ET time maintaince? 2am ET is a horrible time thats when i love to play .

Im guessing workers got tired of doing maintaince at so late so now we gotta suffer for THEYRE problem

Im not mad. Just disappointed. The 5AM ET maintaince was perfect for me hope they go back to it lately its been 2am ET .

You do realise the isn't a magical time when nobody will be affected right? This is perfect for me because I never play at this time of day because of school.

Bandit1215 · October 2016

Nova Sky wrote: »

Actually_Goku wrote: »

2AM? I mean, really? You're complaining about the game being offline 2AM??

I know you can't please everyone all the time, but to actually WHINE about it...

I think Zeni should do maintenance from 4 p.m. to midnight CDT on Thursdays. I work a swing shift, so it wouldn't interrupt my gaming hours, but it'd give the "day walkers" a taste of the medicine that us late-nighters and over-nighters have to deal with on occasion.

But then the day walker's would complain and make them change it to affect the night crawlers, then you would complain and change it again. How does nobody on these threads have the brains to see that SOMEONE will be affected negatively...

Elong · October 2016

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

Not at all. Simply change hours. As someone else stated earlier, if it were me I'd rather start at 5am than be up till 2am to start a server reboot!

It's not you, though.

Thanks for clearing that up, I wasn't sure...

IrishGirlGamer · October 2016

Ihatenightblades wrote: »

Im kinda getting sick of seing theres a maintaince happening the night i really looked forward to playing.

What happened with the 5am ET time maintaince? 2am ET is a horrible time thats when i love to play .

Im guessing workers got tired of doing maintaince at so late so now we gotta suffer for THEYRE problem

Im not mad. Just disappointed. The 5AM ET maintaince was perfect for me hope they go back to it lately its been 2am ET .

Whatever the time, I'd get used to it. When the new update drops on Wed., there will be issues. Maintenance will be a regular thing for a little while.

Hope I'm wrong, but probably not.

Minno · October 2016

Elong wrote: »

Minno wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

BFT88 wrote: »

Why should an employees real life suffer for your wanton need to play a video game? Grow up, it's your problem little man.

Sorry BFT, I start work at 5am, why can't they start work at 5am and start the downtime then? It's not suffering, it's called a job.

Except their job hours are different. You going to pay for their overtime to compensate?

Regardless, you can't make someone work if their time outside of work is spent being in it. Once you liquidate that line between private/work life, you increase employee burnout.

It's easier to play outside during maintenance than to make ZoS put strain on their workers for no reason.

Not at all. Simply change hours. As someone else stated earlier, if it were me I'd rather start at 5am than be up till 2am to start a server reboot!

Regardless, it's only maintenance and it's fool hardy to put ZoS on a bed of spikes because the game is off for a few hours.

Universe · October 2016

Is it just me or the PC EU server has crashed twice in the past 10 minutes ?

Edit: The issue has been resolved.

Elong · October 2016

Minno wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

Minno wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

BFT88 wrote: »

Why should an employees real life suffer for your wanton need to play a video game? Grow up, it's your problem little man.

Sorry BFT, I start work at 5am, why can't they start work at 5am and start the downtime then? It's not suffering, it's called a job.

Except their job hours are different. You going to pay for their overtime to compensate?

Regardless, you can't make someone work if their time outside of work is spent being in it. Once you liquidate that line between private/work life, you increase employee burnout.

It's easier to play outside during maintenance than to make ZoS put strain on their workers for no reason.

Not at all. Simply change hours. As someone else stated earlier, if it were me I'd rather start at 5am than be up till 2am to start a server reboot!

Regardless, it's only maintenance and it's fool hardy to put ZoS on a bed of spikes because the game is off for a few hours.

It's an entire evening gone for us in Oceanic timezones. There's bigger things in the world to worry about for sure, but this is a gaming forum and a thread about maintenance, and I'll have a moan accordingly

Minno · October 2016

Elong wrote: »

Minno wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

Minno wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

BFT88 wrote: »

Why should an employees real life suffer for your wanton need to play a video game? Grow up, it's your problem little man.

Sorry BFT, I start work at 5am, why can't they start work at 5am and start the downtime then? It's not suffering, it's called a job.

Except their job hours are different. You going to pay for their overtime to compensate?

Regardless, you can't make someone work if their time outside of work is spent being in it. Once you liquidate that line between private/work life, you increase employee burnout.

It's easier to play outside during maintenance than to make ZoS put strain on their workers for no reason.

Not at all. Simply change hours. As someone else stated earlier, if it were me I'd rather start at 5am than be up till 2am to start a server reboot!

Regardless, it's only maintenance and it's fool hardy to put ZoS on a bed of spikes because the game is off for a few hours.

It's an entire evening gone for us in Oceanic timezones. There's bigger things in the world to worry about for sure, but this is a gaming forum and a thread about maintenance, and I'll have a moan accordingly

Nerd moans lol

KrishakPanettier · October 2016

I believe original post was indicating how more convenient for themselves and for others the 5 am Wednesday Eastern was and how we have gotten used to working around that time slot, only to change it to a time that would likely impact EVERYONE on the West Coast (11 pm Sunday).

I agree with this thread's general consensus regarding inconveniencing more players Sunday night at 11PDT/2EDT vs. the very likely less impact Wednesday at 2a PDT/5a EDT.

Mondays can very regularly be a holiday (3 day weekend), and many college students do not take classes that fall on a Monday nor schedule work on Monday. So, I see the logic behind the impact of Sunday vs. Wednesday and 2am vs. 5am

Also, for those that do not run a guild, scheduling maintenance (hereinabove referred to as 'Maintaince') on the same morning we need to Bid for and seek backup Traders is a serious concern for everyone who relies on Traders (buyers and sellers).

Although, I agree, we need less whining and we cannot please everyone, but should try to minimize impact.

Ihatenightblades · October 2016

Look at blizzard.. They NEVER have maintenance on servers lol .

Oh ya its cuz they didnt mess it up to begin with.

Eso has been fixing they're game since launch lol smh. Its a amazing game with a amazing concept with millions of things to do.

If this game was polished and ran perfect it might be the best game out. But these things hold u back BIG TIME.

imagine a casual gamer buys eso and doesnt know he will have 24 hrs of offline service a week .
Hes gona think the developers and coders are incompetent.

Meanwhile we have people who have been playing since launch STILLL sticking up for all the problems.

Remember when u use to get booted to home screen all the time?

Im sure u do becuase it still happens till this day

UltimaJoe777 · October 2016

Ihatenightblades wrote: »

Look at blizzard.. They NEVER have maintenance on servers lol .

Oh ya its cuz they didnt mess it up to begin with.

Eso has been fixing they're game since launch lol smh. Its a amazing game with a amazing concept with millions of things to do.

If this game was polished and ran perfect it might be the best game out. But these things hold u back BIG TIME.

imagine a casual gamer buys eso and doesnt know he will have 24 hrs of offline service a week .
Hes gona think the developers and coders are incompetent.

Meanwhile we have people who have been playing since launch STILLL sticking up for all the problems.

Remember when u use to get booted to home screen all the time?

Im sure u do becuase it still happens till this day

For their sake, I hope what I bolded is a lie. EVERY game HAS to do routine maintenance to ensure their game stays healthy. NO game is exempt, and any company that does not do maintenance and/or claims not to is either a liar or negligent.

Mojmir · October 2016

Servers should only go down on February 29th

Elong · October 2016

Minno wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

Minno wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

Minno wrote: »

Elong wrote: »

BFT88 wrote: »

Why should an employees real life suffer for your wanton need to play a video game? Grow up, it's your problem little man.

Sorry BFT, I start work at 5am, why can't they start work at 5am and start the downtime then? It's not suffering, it's called a job.

Except their job hours are different. You going to pay for their overtime to compensate?

Regardless, you can't make someone work if their time outside of work is spent being in it. Once you liquidate that line between private/work life, you increase employee burnout.

It's easier to play outside during maintenance than to make ZoS put strain on their workers for no reason.

Not at all. Simply change hours. As someone else stated earlier, if it were me I'd rather start at 5am than be up till 2am to start a server reboot!

Regardless, it's only maintenance and it's fool hardy to put ZoS on a bed of spikes because the game is off for a few hours.

It's an entire evening gone for us in Oceanic timezones. There's bigger things in the world to worry about for sure, but this is a gaming forum and a thread about maintenance, and I'll have a moan accordingly

Nerd moans lol

We're all nerds.

Ihatenightblades · October 2016

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Ihatenightblades wrote: »

Look at blizzard.. They NEVER have maintenance on servers lol .

Oh ya its cuz they didnt mess it up to begin with.

Eso has been fixing they're game since launch lol smh. Its a amazing game with a amazing concept with millions of things to do.

If this game was polished and ran perfect it might be the best game out. But these things hold u back BIG TIME.

imagine a casual gamer buys eso and doesnt know he will have 24 hrs of offline service a week .
Hes gona think the developers and coders are incompetent.

Meanwhile we have people who have been playing since launch STILLL sticking up for all the problems.

Remember when u use to get booted to home screen all the time?

Im sure u do becuase it still happens till this day

For their sake, I hope what I bolded is a lie. EVERY game HAS to do routine maintenance to ensure their game stays healthy. NO game is exempt, and any company that does not do maintenance and/or claims not to is either a liar or negligent.

Its NOTHING compared to eso maintenance

UltimaJoe777 · October 2016

Ihatenightblades wrote: »

UltimaJoe777 wrote: »

Ihatenightblades wrote: »

Look at blizzard.. They NEVER have maintenance on servers lol .

Oh ya its cuz they didnt mess it up to begin with.

Eso has been fixing they're game since launch lol smh. Its a amazing game with a amazing concept with millions of things to do.

If this game was polished and ran perfect it might be the best game out. But these things hold u back BIG TIME.

imagine a casual gamer buys eso and doesnt know he will have 24 hrs of offline service a week .
Hes gona think the developers and coders are incompetent.

Meanwhile we have people who have been playing since launch STILLL sticking up for all the problems.

Remember when u use to get booted to home screen all the time?

Im sure u do becuase it still happens till this day

For their sake, I hope what I bolded is a lie. EVERY game HAS to do routine maintenance to ensure their game stays healthy. NO game is exempt, and any company that does not do maintenance and/or claims not to is either a liar or negligent.

Its NOTHING compared to eso maintenance

Or perhaps their maintenance is during a time period that doesn't inconvenience YOU, and others that go online when you do. As has been said, someone will always get the short end of the straw regarding maintenance, and there is nothing that can be done about it so long as there is always someone in-game 24/7. Not saying it doesn't suck, and for what it's worth I feel for those that lose out over it, but alas there is nothing that can be done if the servers are to remain healthy.

KhajitFurTrader · October 2016

Ihatenightblades wrote: »

FYI its 11pm for me . And i usualy play till about 1 or 2 am . And its more than about me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHR9gVJTiHU

(Hint: It's Five O'Clock Somewhere)

Thrasher91604 · October 2016

I call general incompetence. Why did they need to do maintenance Sunday night (PDT), when they are going to upgrade the servers again this week and take them down for that? Shouldn't they do it all at once?

Just seems like poor poor planning (and design).

But thank god for all the crown sore vanity items that are coming out.

ESO is like a broken milking machine that occasionally rips off ***...

Villious · October 2016

What's all this talk of "maintaince"?

I just came here because someone said y'all have cookies. Where are the cookies?

newtinmpls · October 2016

Actually_Goku wrote: »

2AM? I mean, really? You're complaining about the game being offline 2AM??

I know you can't please everyone all the time, but to actually WHINE about it...

Hey, I get off work at 11:30, have to train home, decompress and such before going to sleep, so I'm wanting to play from about 12:30am to about 2:30am, so to accommodate my personal whims, Maintenance should clearly be moved ahead 45 min and happen at 2:45 am every day.

And all my drops should be BoE and gold.

And if you are taking me at ALL seriously.... um.... I have no idea what to do about that.

newtinmpls · October 2016

craftycarper73 wrote: »

the question has to still be answered, why cant they do there maintenance without taking the server down? its stupid to say the least.

Wouldn't that be like trying to fix a car while it's still running?

Seems like things could go very very wrong.

Thrasher91604 · October 2016

They could actually have a bank of servers where they service them individually, while providing continuous service. Other services (banking, shopping) do this as standard practice to provide always on availability.

But I'll bet that the wonderful megaserver architecture prevents this.

Well designed ZoS...